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Now it should be noted the [[Misblamed|movie's failings aren't all Shatner's fault]]. We can also thank [[Executive Meddling]] for all the forced "humor" and the [[TV Strikes|1988 WGA strike]] for short-circuiting the screenwriting, and the infamous [[Special Effect Failure]] was due to ILM being too busy with other projects to work on the film.
 
Still, the concept ''was'' Shatner's idea, and he knew about the studio's humor requirements before he even began work. Gene Roddenberry himself had expressed strong reservations about the pitch; He- he had good reason to be concerned, as he had previously written [http://www.well.com/~sjroby/godthing.html his own story] about the crew meeting God and hated the result. But Shatner persisted with the idea of [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|Kirk coming up against God and winning]]. ''[[Star Trek]]'' and religious topics have always been uneasy bedfellows; ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' is the only series to pull it off, and Trekkies are divided on even that. (Of course, considering that Roddenberry's counterproposal was, as usual, having the ''Enterprise'' crew go back to 1963 so Spock could be the second gunman on the grassy knoll, Shatner's idea was still probably the better one.)
 
This movie isn't a total write-off, though: ''Star Trek V'' also features plenty of [[Character Development]] scenes between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy (the [[Book Ends]] with the three camping are quite enjoyable), an absolutely ''brilliant'' backstory scene involving McCoy and his father, and has a collection of well imagined individual sequences such as [[Coming in Hot]] with a shuttlecraft.
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